Automatic fan for furniture



(No Model.)

H. M. BIEN.

AUTOMATIC TAU TOR FURNITURE.

Patented Feb. 9, 1886.

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HERMANN M. BIEN, OF VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI.

AUTOMATIC FAN FOR FURNITURE..

SPECIFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 335,333, dated February9. 1886.

Application filed April 3U, 1885.

To all whom it' may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMANN M. BinN, of Vicksburg, county of Warren,State of Mississippi, have invented and produced a new and originalmachine for providing all kinds of seat-furniture with such frames andattachments as will form the holders of n1osquitonets and several setsoffans,to be worked either by the motion of rockers on all furnitureprovided with such rockers or otherwise by means of cords drawn by handsor feet; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull and exactdescription of the same, reference being had in this description to thedrawing annexed hereunto.

My invention relates to a portable knockdown frame for articles offurniture adapted to be used for mosquito-bars or the like, andespecially for carrying sets of fans upon seatfurniture having rockerso1' other means for oscillating such fans.

In carrying out my invention I provide a frame composed of detachablevertical and horizontal bars that can be readily fitted together anddetached at will, all as illustrated in the drawing hereinafter fullydescribed, and specifically set forth in the claim.

The accompanying drawing represents a rocking-chair having one of myknockdown frames attached thereto, said frame being shown as suppliedwith a series of strips of fabric, forming fans. Attached to the chairare screw-eyes A B, the former being smaller in circumference than thelatter.

C C are uprights, their lower ends furnished with extending studs orpins c, to limit the downward fall of said uprights. Said uprights areat their top ends provided with lateral and transverse orifices crossingeach other at right angles. At a required distance below such upperorifices said uprights are mortised, all for a purpose hereinafter setforth.

D D D represent horizontal bars, their free ends being preferablyaxially bored a required length to receive fastening-pins orthumb-screws t', which pass through the respective orifices of theuprights C and horizontal transverse rods E, the ends of whichtransverse rods E also take into the orifices upon the uprights C atright angles to the oriices that receive the respective ends of the barsD. Said bars D are supplied with hooks Serial No. 161,044. (No model.)

or other suitable fastening devices, h, upon which to hang eyes, rings,or thelike, attached to the fan-frames F. The bars D are also providedwith limiting-abutments d, for the purpose of preventing the bars E oruprights C being` bent too far inwardly, and to guard against splittingsaid bars D. The abutments d may be integral with said bars, fixedrings, or movable sleeves, screw -threaded, if necessary, in whichlatter case the ends of the bars D must be threaded, as will be readilyunderstood. p

H represents cross-braces, the ends of which are formed to fit into themortiseopenings upon the uprights C, thereby stiffening the whole framewhen in place.

G- represents strips of textile fabric, rubber, or any suitablematerial, fastened to rods F, screw-rings or the like being fastenedupon said rods F to loosely take onto suitable hooks, h, and therebypermit the free oscillation of said fans when motion is imparted to therods F.

It will be readily understood that oscillatory motion will be securedwhen a chair such as shown in the drawing is rocked to and fro.

In order to secure vibratory motion to the several rods F and theirattached fans when my frame supplied with such fans is connected to anyarticle that has no rockers-such as, for instance, an ordinary chair,settee, infants crib, bedstead, &c.-I provide said fan-rods F with ringsm, through which a cord, m, can pass; and it is obvious that thereby thefans G can be swung forward and backward.

Thus farI have confined myself to a description of my invention for useon fan attachments; but I do not desire to be understood as limiting itsuse to such purpose, as it is equally adaptable as a mosquito-net frame,either separately or in combination with the fan devices, and I considerthis combination as an important feature of my invention. In southernclimates, especially, is this function of value, where siestas areindulged in, and the provision of convenient means for using amosquito-bar on ordinary seat-furniture will be appreciated, even whenit may not be desired to continuously agitate the fan appliances. Themosquito-net will fit over the top of the frame and fall down on eachside, and may be made with an opening in front, in order to illustratewhich the drawing shows in broken lines a portion of a mosquito-bar onone side of the frame.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that I provide a veryuseful and cheap 'attachment for furniture, that when not in use can betaken apart and packed up in small compass, and when in that conditioncan be conveniently transported, and can even be used by travelers oncars andsteamboats, or camping in the field, and that can be utilizedwith either mosquito bar or swinging fans, or both combined, for thecomfort of minors or adults. y

I am aware that it is not new to provide a frame for furnitureattachment that can be taken apart, and lay no claim, broadly, thereto;neither do I broadly claim fans to swing by means of operating-cords, asothers have .accomplished this before me; but, so far as known to me, itis new to arrange fans to swing overhead, in combination with verticalsupports, horizontal braces, and crossfbars, as

shown and described, such devices being composed of separable membersadapted to be connected together and adjusted onto various articles offurniture and removed therefrom at Will.

Having now fully described my invention and its manner of constructionand operation, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent ofthe United States, is-` A portable knockdown frame for furnitureattachment, consisting of a series of vertical uprights, C, horizontalbars E and D, and braces H, adapted to interlockand compose aquadrangular frame, in combination with a series of oscillatory fans, G,depending from rods F, provided with fastening devices adapted toloosely mesh with hooks upon the cross- 4o bars D of the device,substantially as described. Y

HERMANN M. BIEN. Vitnesses:

A. SARToRIs, Sr., J. HIRsH.

